mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) (10/06/90)
I need to be able to read some output generated by Digital Darkroom on a real computer (i.e. one that I can program in plain, ordinary C with no stupid 32K "segments"). I can get the output and send it to any computer I desire. But I need to know the format. The manual says it is "PICT" or "Adobe Illustrator" format (your choice, in fact you can make both if you wish.) I open either kind of file with RedEdit and it says "no resources found". And indeed there is stuff in the data fork. This is output of the "autotrace" command that generates "objects", presumable some sort of polygon. But there is no documentation on how to read this stuff. I found a description of PICT in "Macintosh Revealed" but it seemed to say it was a bitmap, not a polygon description. Does anybody know how to read this stuff? Doug McDonald